If you want to kill one use a Dino or a crossbow. Don't use guns because it Tales less damage from them! Thank me later!
Karkinos
The Karkinos is a massive crab-like creature in Ark: Aberration that can grab and smash creatures and players. It can also throw them at great lengths. Using its strong legs, the Karkinos can leap to impressive heights.
Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Karkinos in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
No one seems to have mentioned that karkinos can use tools, they just need a special type of tool: doedicurus, use a karkinos to pick up a tamed armadillo and walk around to rocks and the armadillo hits the rocks and keeps them stored, argies and quetz can do it to but they can…
No one seems to have mentioned that karkinos can use tools, they just need a special type of tool: doedicurus, use a karkinos to pick up a tamed armadillo and walk around to rocks and the armadillo hits the rocks and keeps them stored, argies and quetz can do it to but they can only hold one and they don't spawn on abberation, not sure but if you transfer a beaver to abberation you might be able to use it and an armadillo at the same time to gather both rock and wood
They are immune to radiation and are great for leaping past danger when trying to get a rock Drake egg.
Available at floating island caves in Crystal Isles.
They're very rare in there so be patient
Net projectile works on these, so craft your catapult and boulders, find your crab and net it. Proceed to set up the catapult a few feet from its face and you can easily just fire all required shots before the net expires. You’re welcome!
Cannons do not lower efficiency, one hit knock out, catapults are broken on ASA.
DO NOT USE A CANNON!! If you use a cannon the taming efficiency will drop all the way down to 58%. Use a catapult and shoot its back, don't waste resources on cannon or cannonballs
ASA: Catapult dont works in offical Servers. User a Canon and shoot at the Back. Build a Trap and good luck.
For cave raids put c4 on a turtle then use mr.crabs to yet the turtle to destroy bases
Beaver in one claw
Doed in the other
Farm some stone structures
You can use Kark to pick up your tamed Castoroide and use it as a hatchet, that way you get half weight on the wood going into your Castoroide.
People were commenting boulders are better than cannons for taming these so I just assumed they meant rock golems. Kind of went out of my way to tame one. Doesn't seem to work for this but eh, I got a golem now. Lol
Knock theme out by firing boulders at their body. Each successful hit adds 250 torpor.
I know they’re crabs but my arachnophobia says otherwise
An all around amazing tame with a variety of uses. Hunt trilobites for oil. Carry armadillos for farming stone and clearing paths. Delicately plucking dinos off an elevator. Exploring. Farming gems from rats. The list goes on and on, just be creative. Its almost OP but it is…
An all around amazing tame with a variety of uses. Hunt trilobites for oil. Carry armadillos for farming stone and clearing paths. Delicately plucking dinos off an elevator. Exploring. Farming gems from rats. The list goes on and on, just be creative. Its almost OP but it is hard to tame. Not only do you need a catapult but you also need to score only body shots and even then pray that its strong enough to survive the hits. It's tanky, uses surprisingly very little stamina, has a good attack even without the grab, well worth the trouble.
(Pest cleaning): Grabbed wild/enemy creatures , as far i have seen,will take damage 2 two times (the second a bit weaker) so, It is actually very good at pest control, and i say the big ones, raptors, thylas, sabers and more, and you can even throw them away, works well with…
(Pest cleaning): Grabbed wild/enemy creatures , as far i have seen,will take damage 2 two times (the second a bit weaker) so, It is actually very good at pest control, and i say the big ones, raptors, thylas, sabers and more, and you can even throw them away, works well with the cat using the pest control for the smol.
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(Baby sitter): Considering the karkinos can grab 2 creatures a time, jump and throw them, It passes the job apply for baby sitter perfeclty, pair with maewing/guana and gigantoraptor, the nannies will raise a baby with great performance.(Also, If you are a modder and see this, we need a maid/ baby sitter costume for karkinos NOW, It would be funny by a lot)
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(Wild baby claim assister): It can grab wild babies, so, you can dismount then walk in the arm the claim It, no baby running.
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(Tame/Farmer Assist/Carrier): Nah, i don't even need to say It, it's intuitive, terrestrial argy/rhynio go BRRRR!
Made by Vinícius, also, if possible, i would appreciate an green arrow pointing to the sky!
Once you tame the Karkinos anything that fits in its claws just hold them there and traq them
Handy trick, if you're playing on Fjordur and want a high level DO NOT go to the Aberration Cave. There is a second Aberration cave near the Vannaland (South) Southeast teleport. Go inside, and if you find a low level kill it and harvest the corpse. Then do a lap of the…
Handy trick, if you're playing on Fjordur and want a high level DO NOT go to the Aberration Cave. There is a second Aberration cave near the Vannaland (South) Southeast teleport. Go inside, and if you find a low level kill it and harvest the corpse. Then do a lap of the cave (make sure to fight stuff to slow you down as if you run too fast this doesn't work), and you should have another spawn. I used this trick and in 5 minutes I had already killed 7 Karkinos, and they were a mix of levels. This is also a great way to farm Organic Polymer. Hope this helped
Alpha version can damage stone. Everything is lost.
Want an effective trap for the crab?
For about 300 stone and wood the youtuber Captain Fatdog will show you the cheapest and most effective trap